The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-10
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

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CURRENT TOPICS.
THE people of st. Louis now propose to
pipe Mr. Cleveland there by town meeting.
JACOB SHARP, king OF the New York hood
lers, has lost forty pounds since his trial be-
gan, and is still losing flesh daily. His family
and attending physician think he will not
hold out much longer
Mr.. CYRUS w. FIELD cards the public to
the effect that ne did sell a large block of
Manhattan stock to Jay Gould, and that the
latter "acted throughout the transaction in a
perfectly straightforward manner, and the
most friendly feeling exists between us"
IT looks as if the fact that Prince Ferdinand
is Roman Catholic will initiate against his
The Greek religion is established there and
Greek orthodoxy will probably be insisted up
on as an essential justification in the estima-
ton Of the Cars government for the occu-
pant Of the Bulgarian throne.
Ex-Governor SHEPHERD, once notorious
as Boss" Shepherd, is on his way to Wash
ington from Mexico, and viii spend some
time in this country to recuperate his health.
There are many people in Washington who
think he deserves and will yet be honored
with monument for his services in improv-
ing and identifying that city.
MISTAKES are sometimes made, even by
the best-intentioned mobs Here is a case in
point: In August, 1884 three men were
hanged at Scottsboro, Ala, for burning
house. On Friday last convict in the Ala
bama penitentiary confessed on his death-bed
that the three men executed had nothing to
do with the burning of the house, as he had
set it on fire himself
OscAR J. HARVEY, the trusted Treasury
clerk who has been caught swindling the
government said in his confession to the
Secretary that he had been driven to it by
pecuniary necessities. brought upon him by
Atmar~ with whom he had been in partnership,
and who ever since he had received his
appointment in the Treasury had goaded him
on to make the most of his opportunities. It
is the old story of weak man subjected to
TEMPTATION which he could not resist.
The Hon. John p. Usher, of Lawrence, in
his testimony before the Union Pacific Rail-
road Commission, said that when the advan-
tages of Omaha as terminal point of the road
were first presented to President Lincoln, he
remarked: 'Tve got a quarter section of
land near there, and if locate the terminus
at that point people will say I am personally
interested in the matter" The fear of this,
however, did not prevent President Lincoln
from deciding finally in favor Of Omaha.
CHRISTIAN science" is as useless as the
prayer cure or the faith cure in cases of cam
Ger. A Boston doctor of the regular variety
gives narrowing account of the sufferings
and death of a woman afflicted with cancer
while under the care of Christian scientist,
who insisted that nothing was the matter.
Quacks, even of the Christian variety, the
doctor insists, cannot cure this disease. It
may be added that the success of regular
physicians in this direction is not phenomenal.
az re he ivf1
Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, writes:
s'There is no hatred between the soldiers
North and South Brave men always res
pect, but never hate each other. I saw
thirty thousand of the rebs surrender at
Vicksburg Miss, with empty stonlachs. You
ought to have seen how gladly the boys in
blue gave them all they had in their haver-
sacks. There is never one word said about
politics in the Grand Army. They simply
attend to their own business, and they are
willing for other people to do the same
Isaac's head seems to be level
Mr.. WILLIAMS, of the Omaha cable railway
company, is surprised that the capitalists of
this city have waited for foreign capital to
build cable lines here. MIR. Williams, being
u stranger, does not understand the situation.
The capitalists of Indianapolis have been
boarding up their change for the last ten or
fifteen years in order to be ready to save the
town from the octopus-like grasp of O foreign
monopoly that actually proposed to furnish
.he citizens with cheap fuel. The home
capitalists will continue the Saving" process
by piping gas here right away-that is to say.
as soon as they find seventy-fv or hun
dred more wells with gas in them.
THOMAS EDrsoN's latest alleged discovery
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